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Re: Removing old news from webpages



On 2025-07-17 11:23, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> From my understanding, URL structure is a bit less of an issue, search
> engines in particular are good at dealing with it. However, the SEO
> value that we get from that huge history and incoming links is
> extremely valuable and it's something that money can't buy. Also,
> historical data, even though not as often referenced, is extremely
> valuable and I absolutely agree that it should be preserved and that
> the web team reconsiders this!

IMHO, we should definetively maintain all the historical pages
"forever", and also preserve their original URLs. But it might be useful
to have a header on historical pages, like The Guardian has:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/oct/13/dumpfirefoxsw

"🕑 This article is more than *18 years old*"


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